Elder Abuse & Dementia 9 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Older people harmed by caregivers or relatives, and cases where dementia clouds what a witness knows.
- Season 4 · Episode 3
Vulnerable
An elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease turns up with cigarette burns, and the search for her abuser leads from her debt-ridden son to the staff of her assisted-living home.
- Season 5 · Episode 23
Bound
The strangling of a wealthy, terminally ill widow links two older murders to a home-nursing company run by a doctor and his sister.
- Season 6 · Episode 21
Blood
A young mother’s assault and her baby’s near death expose a painkiller pipeline running through a frail grandmother’s home.
- Season 8 · Episode 4
Uncle
A silent homeless man found with clippings about sex crimes becomes the first suspect in a double murder, until Munch recognizes him as his own uncle.
- Season 10 · Episode 13
Snatched
When a girl is snatched from her bed, suspicion moves from her paroled father to her grandfather, a legendary thief whose memory is failing.
- Season 13 · Episode 10
Spiraling Down
A sting aimed at the men who paid to have sex with a 14-year-old runaway catches a former football star whose head injuries raise the question of whether he understood what he did.
- Season 16 · Episode 16
December Solstice
A novelist’s daughters accuse his much younger wife of secretly drugging him for sex, and his death after she pulls him from the hospital leads to a manslaughter charge.
- Season 19 · Episode 22
Mama
An Alzheimer’s patient’s rape claim, mixed up with a 50-year-old memory, leads SVU to a temp aide who targets elderly women in care homes.
- Season 24 · Episode 15
King of the Moon
A neurologist with dementia confesses to raping and killing his wife of 40 years, but Carisi and Benson set out to prove he did not do it.